ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,650, issued on March 31, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Input/output privacy tool" was invented by Tambra Nichols (Charlotte, N.C.), Teresa Lynn Rench (Mount Holly, N.C.), Jonathan Austin Hartsell (Mooresville, N.C.), John C. Brenner (Chesterfield, Mo.) and Christopher James Williams (Mooresville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples described herein are directed to systems and methods for managing an interface between a user and a user computing device. The user computing device may determine that an audio sensor in communication with the user computing device indicates a first command in a ...